[Kim Wexler’s Ponytail]

They've mot been able to build sound stages fast enough in the last decade. In recent years it's more likely the big blockbuster films have Bern filmed in the UK than in Hollywood. Of course that does mean American films being name on British soil but financially at least the British film production industry isn't in a dire state, and actual British films still punch above their weight.

Anyway we stray but worth mentioning the huge tax relief programmes given to the film industry and now the "high end" TV industry. Latest figures shows £829m went to "High end TV" in 2021/22.

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Are you the culture secretary? maybe take a look at the backlash from British film makers after her comments about Barbie being made in Britain not Hollywood a few weeks ago. Yeah, there is a boom but it’s largely international. I saw one writer describe it as ''like a party in your own house that you've somehow not been invited to''. We’re great at providing tax breaks for Hollywood to make Star Wars, Batman and Barbie films cheaper here but domestic British cinema, desperately in need of reform, is only a very small percentage of the boom.